Desert Rage

A Lena Jones Mystery

Ferociously ambitious US senatorial candidate Juliana Thorssonhas been keeping a secret. The horrific slaughter of a prominent doctor, hiswife, and their ten-year-old son inside their Scottsdale home brings Thorssonto private investigator Lena Jones. The slain family’s fourteen-year-old,Alison, and her boyfriend, Kyle, have confessed to the murders. Thorsson wantsto hire Lena to discover if Alison is telling the truth, but before acceptingthe job, Lena demands to know why a rising political star wants to involveherself with the fate of a girl she’s never met. Desperate for Lena’s help,Thorsson reveals her explosive secret—that Alison is the candidate’s biologicaldaughter, a fact she’s kept hidden for years. But that’s not all. Thorsson thenconfides something even more unusual than a mere hidden pregnancy—somethingthat could ruin her political plans forever.

Suspecting that Alison’s parents had secrets of their ownthat could have led to the murders, Lena finally accepts Thorsson’s assignment.But interviewing those who knew the family well soon puts Lena—now a strongdefender of the two teens—in danger of her life.

The Lena Jones Mysteries Series

Things are never easy for Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones. Her partner in Desert Investigations, Jimmy Sisiwan, is leaving for a moneyed wife and a job at Southwest Microsystems, and her old captain at the Scottsdale Police Department is off to his home in Brooklyn. Meanwhile, she’s doing security for Warren Quinn, director of a documentary... Read More »

While scouting locations for a film documentary on Arizona’s Apache Wars, private investigator Lena Jones and Oscar-winning director Warren Quinn discover the mutilated body of a young girl. The gruesome manner of the child’s death evokes memories of Lena’s own rough childhood.

While running surveillance in an industrial section of Scottsdale, Arizona, PI Lena Jones discovers the body of a woman connected to the infamous polygamy cult Second Zion. Lena joins forces with a former polygamist “sister wife” to find the victim’s killer and discovers a shocking secret: that in a society where one man can have ten wives, nine... Read More »

PI Lena Jones learns that old sins never die; they’re still taking lives.

When PI Lena Jones’ partner, Pima Indian Jimmy Sisiwan, is arrested in the remote town of Walapai Flats in northern Arizona, Lena closes the Desert Investigations office and rushes to his aid. What she finds is a town up in arms over a new uranium mine located only ten... Read More »

Ferociously ambitious US senatorial candidate Juliana Thorssonhas been keeping a secret. The horrific slaughter of a prominent doctor, hiswife, and their ten-year-old son inside their Scottsdale home brings Thorssonto private investigator Lena Jones. The slain family’s fourteen-year-old,Alison, and her boyfriend, Kyle, have confessed to the... Read More »

When the man who raped Scottsdale private investigator Lena Jones when she was a nine-year-old foster child is released from prison, Lena is waiting for him in the parking lot—with a big knife. “Papa” Brian Wycoff survives their meeting, but the next day, his wife, who knew about his crimes but did nothing to stop him—in fact enabled him—is... Read More »

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